Suresh Krishna Madhuvarsu

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Product Manager vs Product Owner

There seems to be different versions of the responsibilities and accountability that’s floating around in the industry with #ProductManager and #ProductOwner. Especially, these days technology companies are creating several Product Manager positions like, “Tools Product Manager”, “UI Product Manager”, “API Product Manager”, “Technical Product Manager”. In that sense job applicants/employees are highly confused to see what their [...] ... (more)

The Web-Based World: In Praise of Google, iPhone, Twitter and Facebook

I would not have written this blog in the year 2000 and by now I am highly opinionated towards Google, of course in a good way. During my graduation years (1996-2000), I used Rediff and Yahoo! search for my college projects, and ACM seminars. In the year 1996/1998, Google was known but to very few people. But nowadays Google is not just an Internet search company but a worldwide phenomenon that changed the way everyone thinks. Google virtually got implanted in today’s life of everyone. I was quite amazed with the following news from Yahoo CEO in the annual shareholder meeting. W... (more)

Commercial and OpenSource OCR Softwares

Open Source Journal After testing the FineReader, OmniPage, ReadIRIS, and SimpleOCR, Aspire, Tesseract….it is evident that ABBYY FineReader 9 is the best overall value, while ReadIRIS is the best OCR software for under $150. The main features that differentiate OCR software are: Character recognition accuracy Page layout reconstruction accuracy Support for languages Support for searchable PDF output Speed User interface API / SDK Support / Consulting Stability of the engine when processing large documents Following are some of the Softwares that I played with and compared. Simpl... (more)

Oracle Open World 2010

Oracle is all about offering “Complete integrated stack” of IT infrastructure to its customers. After the Sun acquisition, this is the first OOW and the company showed the synergy of its wide range of products. Some of the highlights that caught my attention were… Larry talked a bit about Cloud Computing. In general Oracle agrees with Amazon [...] ... (more)